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at all times and for all things; x 5 . Becaufe the afflilions of the faithful!, though - for finne, are under their defert; and in them the an- ger of God is carried not againft their perfons but againft their finne. 6. Becaufe of thofe other favours of God which in their afllitions they do enjoy. Definentes contri- Bail. 386. f flari propter ea qua non habemus, de rebus pree fentibus gratias agere debemus, Ceafing to grieve for thofe things we have not, we are to give thanks for things which we prefently have. 7. Becaufe though pofitive bleffings are want- ing, yet there are alwayes innumerable privative bleffings for which we are to give thanks. Confider the evils we have deferved, and the dangers where- unto we are expofed: Confider that by our finnes we have deferved all the plagues denounced in the law, Deut. 2 8. i 5. not onely in this life but alfo in the world to come. Whileft therefore our conditi- on is better then thofe in hell, we have caufe to prayfe God, who hath not dealt with us after our finnes, nor rewarded us after our iniquities, Pfal. r o3. io. Lam. 3. 2z. Now if they are bound to prayfe God that are not confumed , how much more have we caufe to prayfe God, whom he hath not onely not confumed, but hath heaped and multi- plied his mercies upon us both privative and pofi- tive,.' And as at all times we are to prayfe God, fo in folemn feftivalls ordained to that end, fuch as was that of Purim, Efth.9.and ours of the Fifth of November, for our marvellous deliverance from that horrible confpiracy of the Papiftsby the gun- pouder-treafon. FINIS. NNW